Concrete building.



H. E. WILLSIE.

CONCRETE BUILDING.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. I8. 1908.

Patented Au 31, 1915.

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HENRY ELMER WILLSIE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CONCRETE BUILDING.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 31, 1915,,

Application filed February 18, 1908. Serial N 0. 416,464.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY ELMER WILL- SIE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Concrete Buildings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the construction of concrete buildings and the objects of my invention are; to provide means for constructing a building in sections without the use of expensive forms and to provide means for securing the sections together into a finished building. I attain these objects by the means shown in the accompanying drawings, in which similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a ground floor plan of a simple, four room cottage; Fig. 2, the front elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a side elevation of the same, Fig. 4, a partial vertical cross section of the building, showing the manner of securing sections together; Fig. 5, a partial, vertical, longitudinal section of the building, showing the method of securing sections together; Fig. 6, a plan view,

showing method of securing wall sections together; Fig. 7, a vertical section showing a method of securing together and supporting floor or ceiling sections In constructing a building in accordance with this invention, it is desirable for economy to so plan the building that the sections will be of nearly uniform size.-

At the time the sections are poured, the wall footings, 33, 33, are made on the bottom of the cellar excavation. By means of a derrick, the sections 34, 34, for the cellar are placed-on the footings, 33, 33. The sections fit together as shown in Fig. 6. Into the spaces, 35, 35, is poured thin concrete.

The sections are also secured together bythe metal bonds, 37 and 38 around which is poured concrete. On the cellar sections are placed the floor sections, 39, 39 which look together with the cellar sections as shown in Fig. 4. Next are placed the wall sections, 13, 21, 40, 40, and partition sections, 41, 41, which are bonded together as described and then looked into place by the ceiling sections 42, 42. The porch roof sections, 43, 43, are placed so as to be supported by the columns 44, 44, and by the sections, 13, 21, and to be looked into place by the triangular sections, 45, 45. The roof sections, 26, 26, are now placed and the joints filled with concrete. The off-sets 29, 29, lock the roof sections in place. An opening is left in a roof section for the placing of the chimney, 47 If it is desired to place a partition section at some other place than at the junction of the two ceiling sections, as at 41*, the ceiling sections may be locked together and supported by an angle iron, 49, as shown in What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is;

1. In a building construction, a Wall section provided with a recess in the upper longitudinal edge of the section, a floor-ceiling section provided with edge conformations fitting into and partly filling said recess, and an upper wall section provided With conformations in its lower edge resting upon the floor-ceiling section and substantially filling the remaining space in said recess.

2. Ina building construction, the combination of a vertical cellar-wall section, a vertical wall section, a horizontal ceilingfloor section, a recess in the upper longitudinal edge of the cellar-wall section, a conformation in an edge of the ceiling-floor-section fitting into and partly filling said recess, a conformation on the lower edge of the wall section resting upon the ceiling-floor section. and substantially filling the remaining space in said recess, and a recess in the upper longitudinal edge of the wall section.

3. In a building construction, the combi nation of a vertical cellar-wall section, a vertical wall section, a horizontal ceilingfioor section, a recess in the upper longitudinal edge of the cellar-wall section, a conformation in an edge of the ceiling-floor section fitting into and partly filling said re- 'cess, and a conformation on the lower edge of the Wall section resting upon the edge of the ceiling-floor section and substantially filling the remaining space in said recess, and lock joints in the adjoining vertical edges of the wall sections.

4. In a building construction, a substantially vertical wall section, a substantially horizontal ceiling-floor section, a recess in the upper edge of the wall section, a conformation in an edge of the ceiling-floor section fitting into and partly filling said recess, an inclined roof section resting upon the wall section, and an offset on the lower face of the roof section substantially fitting into and fillingthe space between the adjoining parts of the said sections.

5. In a building construction, the combination of a substantially vertical cellar-wall section, a wall, section in substantially the same vertical plane as the cellar-Wall section, a substantially horizontal ceiling-floor section, a longitudinal recess in the upper longitudinal edge of the cellar-Wall section, a

conformation in an edge of the ceiling-floor section fitting into said recess, a conformation on the lower edge of the wall section resting upon the ceiling-floor section, and a longitudinal recess'in the upper longitudinal edge of the Wall section.

6. In a building construction, the combination of a substantially vertical cellar-Wall section, a Wall section in substantially the samevertical plane as the cellar Wall section,

HENRY ELMER WILLSIE.

Witnesses:

WALTER C. RICHARDS,

WILLIAM PAUND. 

